Category Archives: Writings

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/letters/letters-state-court-employees-get-no-special-perks-1808769.html?cxtype=rss_letters&viewAsSinglePage=true September 1, 2011 If West’s serious, why back more weapons for Israel? At a recent town hall meeting in Palm Beach Gardens, U.S. Rep. Allen West, R-Plantation, defended his vote on the debt-limit deal as a first step toward … Continue reading →

http://www2.starexponent.com/news/2011/aug/20/rep-cantor-put-your-constituents-economic-concerns-ar-1250435/ Rep. Cantor: Put your constituents’ economic concerns before Israel’s By: Josh Ruebner Published: August 20, 2011 » 9 Comments | Post a Comment Americans are suffering massive cutbacks in social services, an unemployment rate stuck above 9 percent, and 10 million … Continue reading →

http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/177199-hold-israel-accountable-with-leahy-law Hold Israel accountable with Leahy law By Josh Ruebner, national advocacy director of the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation – 08/17/11 11:52 AM ET — Apologists for Israeli occupation and apartheid claim that advocates for holding Israel accountable … Continue reading →

Foreign Policy in Focus Robbing Peter to Pay Israel By Josh Ruebner, August 12, 2011 Jesse Jackson, Jr. shaking hands with former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on a 2003 trip to Israel Nearly 20 percent of the constituents of … Continue reading →

http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/08/straining-every-nerve-against-un-membership-for-palestine/ by Josh Ruebner / August 9th, 2011 The Roman philosopher and politician Cicero urged orators to “Strain every nerve to gain your point.”  The Obama Administration appears to have taken his advice to heart in its attempts to make … Continue reading →

South Florida Sun-Sentinel By Josh Ruebner9:31 a.m. EDT, June 29, 2011 For all intents and purposes, the two-decade-long U.S. “peace process” — premised on privileging Israeli occupation and apartheid at the expense of Palestinian human and national rights — is … Continue reading →

http://mondoweiss.net/2011/06/when-the-obama-administration-seeks-to-establish-its-pro-israel-bona-fides-its-no-critics-allowed.html by Josh Ruebner on June 16, 2011 Assistant Secretary of State Esther Brimmer, who heads the department’s Bureau of International Organization Affairs, delivered a humdinger of a speech yesterday to the AIPAC derivative “think tank” Washington Institute for Near East Policy … Continue reading →

http://blog.endtheoccupation.org/2011/06/statement-on-malek-jandali-and-adc.html For more than one decade, I have worked closely with the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC). My earliest political activism includes organizing protests with ADC at the Israeli Embassy. After the tragic attacks of September 11, I helped organize … Continue reading →

http://mondoweiss.net/2011/05/the-emperor%E2%80%99s-clothes-are-still-on-for-now-though-netanyahus-heckler-is-roughed-up-hospitalized.html by Josh Ruebner on May 24, 2011 Gliding down the aisle of the House of Representatives like a popular president about to deliver the State of the Union address, escorted by a phalanx of dozens of ebullient Members of Congress, Israeli … Continue reading →

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-ruebner/obama-enables-israelipale_b_865792.html For all of President Obama’s repeated insistence that the status quo in Israeli-Palestinian relations is unsustainable, recent developments make clear that his administration has no new ideas or strategies to achieve a breakthrough toward peace. His statements during three … Continue reading →